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Tonic for Spring

   recipe 

sulfur and blackstrap molasses

teaspoons  one part to two parts

professed to cleanse the blood 

                                 nothing a good iron fleam blade couldnt fix if one had the stomach and gumption

or perhaps an enticed leech reared in a springfed freshwater lake  

 

these were beginning to sound like specialty rolls at a sushi house

 

raw eggs work

some prefer it with a touch of milk and coarse ground black pepper

while others find them repellent because they have something to do with raw chickens

cant beat garlic or kale

legumes or soybean pods he was partial to calling them edamame

none of the letters creep off beneath the lower line of a Primary Ruled Printing Tablet  which return him thoughts of one-inch ruling Bond paper its trusty companions the Ticonderoga #2 Beginner Pencils  their tactile smooth round yellow barrels

Prousts madeleines did justice but memory isnt confined alone to scents or tastes

theres a weight in the hand  a turn of a phrase  sensations  a place

                                                                            all Tonics 

and other tonics  toxic   things better left alone or struggling to forget 

banished for reasons  none of which should have to be explained 

                                                                      that are  and that existence suffices

that which exists is

and even when it becomes was / Is

 

perhaps toxic is vitriolic malignant  perhaps inappropriate 

                                                              or maybe it just feels that way to some people

to others who have forged ahead  mustered their way beyond the was / Is of their experience who are grappled and clutched who are sought to be arrested by sincere others who feel they ought to be grateful for their time 

and as that time expired

                           are somehow obliged to rarify or vivify their Past

made Subjects to their memory

                                  living as a Memorial

rather than a human being

 

one takes a tonic to refresh

to invigorate

 

 

tonics taken Spring Summer Fall Winter as needed 

                                                       or necessary 

and best ingested alone

  

1510,  Thursday,  11  7. 13

0911,  Thursday,  4/20  ‘23